FOUQUET, Jean
(b. ca. 1420, Tours, d. ca. 1480, Tours)

Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier

1452-60
Manuscript (Ms. 71), 201 x 148 mm
Musée Condé, Chantilly

The present miniature depicts the Coronation of the Virgin from the Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier. The setting is a lavishly decorated palace hall before a monumental triple throne. For the miniature Fouquet chose seven colours, which are distributed such that the viewer's gaze focuses on the Trinity and the Virgin.




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